Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.